Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)
Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.
Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect (www.techradar.com)
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...
Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens (reason.com)
Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired | WIRED (www.wired.com)
Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps (www.xda-developers.com)
The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" (piped.video)
The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning....
The Future of America’s Biggest Spy Program Is Being Decided Right Now (www.wired.com)
Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" (abc7news.com)
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible (arstechnica.com)
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress (www.wired.com)
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)
Quad9 DNS in Pihole blocks catbox.moe (feddit.de)
Beeper is joining Automattic [WordPress] (blog.beeper.com)
I’m excited to announce that Beeper has been acquired by Automattic. This acquisition marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter as we continue our mission to create the best chat app on earth....
Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification (www.theverge.com)
GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7 (9to5linux.com)
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14092066
Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576) (blog.rust-lang.org)
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare (unlimitedhangout.com)
MIT Researcher Creates Mind-Controlled Internet Search Headset (www.unilad.com)
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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)
Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...
